>>Hi,
>>
>>Just realized that my reply to Charles had nothing to do with the question :-}
>>I think the true answer is that the String class must have an operator overload for type Object that returns a new string with Object.ToString() appended. Silly e.g.:

public class MyClass
>>    {
>>        public override string ToString()
>>        {
>>            return "World";
>>        }
>>    }

then:

string s1 = "Hello ";
>>            s1 = s1 + new MyClass();

>>
>>>>
>
>
>That's what I was thinking too
>
>something like
>
>

>public static implicit operator string(object obj)
>		{
>			return obj.ToString();
>		}
>

Yup :-}